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Low-order reaction-diffusion system approximates heat transfer and flow structure in annular convection
Yuejia Zhang, Nicholas J. Moore, Jinzi Mac Huang
Heat transfer in a fluid can be greatly enhanced by natural convection, giving rise to the nuanced relationship between the Nusselt number and Rayleigh number that has been a focus…
Covering convection with thermal blankets: fluid-structure interactions in thermal convection
Jinzi Mac Huang
The continental plates of Earth are known to drift over a geophysical timescale, and their interactions have lead to some of the most spectacular geoformations of our planet while…
Side-heated Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Jinzi Mac Huang, Jun Zhang
Unlike solids, the heat transfer in fluids can be greatly enhanced due to the presence of convection. Under gravity, an unevenly distributed temperature field results in difference…
Large-scale circulation reversals explained by pendulum correspondence
Nicholas J. Moore, Jinzi Mac Huang
We introduce a low-order dynamical system to describe thermal convection in an annular domain. The model derives systematically from a Fourier-Laurent truncation of the governing N…